Russia announces they are deploying S-400 missile batteries now to Syria, range 400km. Our F-15 aircrews are not happy at Incirlik Air Base.
And that thing screams at altitude at mach 6.2, can maneuver at 20 G’s at up to 114,000 feet. Its final range can go into about 600,000 ft.
It is at the max limit of staying within the ABM treaty.
This isn’t some stinger or SA-2.
We really don’t use anything like it except Naval missiles.
But the reason is simply because we have different needs. Likewise they never have much of a Navy because they don’t need it to protect access to trade and battlefields.
They needed to defend a large landmass with internal lines of communication. We needed to project power over sea lanes of communication.
They better have some crazy ECM capability on the NATO side and quickly.
Nope.
Obama sending them there may have contributed to the Turks feeling a little more froggy too.
Lot's of firepower in that region of the world. And it could all be released faster than you can read a Tom Clancy novel.